(NPC Post, CW for unsettling description) EMERGENCY BROADCAST - Video

[stodgebot]

This is T-O-D, Deputy of Ingress Contingency Coordination. We are entering a level two state contamination across all known regions--I told them we needed to regulate travel, but nooo.... and THIS. Is Ema.

[The camera turns from the round robotic speaker toward a tendril-faced being who looks slightly ill. Or just embarrassed. Those who have traveled with the Savrii's diplomatic groups might recognize the individual at hand as a mid-clearance representative. They might even understand the shy wave of her tentacles, before a high, sarcastic voice cuts off the gesture.]

Ema went out with that fiasco on the asteroid. Ema decided to cut loose. Relax! Why not? It's not like the assessors trusted with the fate of the multiverse thought it was dangerous!

...but. Ema keeps a sensible security system installed around her room. And that's how we were able to discover this.

[The TAB feed switches to a dimmer video with a timestamp in the lower left corner. Almost exactly three days ago-- the night of the celebration on Asteroid 276. It shows Ema stumbling outside of her quarters and vomiting into the hallways of Region Four. The tentacled woman stumbles away in distress, leaving behind a messy coating of red-grey...

...which quivers. Shudders. And crawls offscreen, a rolling, seething mess of flesh--]

Consuming untested phenomenon. Smuggling of a potential biohazard. And this from a planet vetted as safe? I understand many of you biologicals keep parasites of your own, but this is an obvious breach of interuniversal quarantine procedures, and requires immediate assessment and response.

[TOD vibrates in the air, high voice reaching a crescendo of frenzied importance.]

Testing stations are being set up in Burg One of Chioni and all populated regions of Kauto. All inhabitants of Thisavrou who have engaged in Ingress travel over the last two cycles are required to report to mandatory decontamination and debriefing. That's two hundred days for the calculation-challenged idiots out there! If you know of anyone experiencing similar symptoms, provide their names, along with anything they've touched, to the nearest Contingency Coordinator or intermediary. Especially if they haven't reported in!

I hope the urgency of the situation has been fully impressed on you. If, however, you have further questions, you may submit them for review.

[[ooc: More info on the decontamination will be posted in the monthly log. For OOC questions, head this way!]]

Comments

[witchweird]

Does that mean travel anywhere at all requires decontamination? Not just to the asteroid? What will happen to the asteroid?

Will the Ingress remain open for trips to other destinations? For trade? Are there any plans to change the safety classifications or procedures for rating a destination as safe?

And if this is a result of consuming food or drink tainted with this parasite, is anything being done about food stores to assure that they are safe? Is cooking sufficient?

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[inconsequence]

[Ha ha! Boy! Good thing no one close to them engaged in genetic modifications on the Asteroid or anything!]

What of those who received genetic alterations on Asteroid 276? Are they at an increased risk?

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[gainedlove]

[That was real. It wasn't a dream, that was real. Something like that came out of them, could still be in them.]

[Could be inside Asriel.]

what will you do to people that got sick

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[pleasereset]

[Haha... oh god. Oh god.

Is that what's inside him? He didn't think he threw anything up that night, didn't see anything come out but...

Oh god.

He feels sick.]

What's going to happen the people that have those things inside them?

[brokencode]

You aren't going to punish Ema, are you? Or... hurt her in any way? There was no way of knowing, and this was meant to be a peace-mission, wasn't it? Who would risk compromising the mission like that with something this egregious?

[mttbrandlegs]

Please forgive me a few questions.

This parasite does not pose lethal threat, does it?

And surely, despite your ever-so-slightly officious tone, there is no intent to punish anyone who has been affected, correct?

[Mettaton presents himself flatly enough, but that doesn't stop the endless mental stream of cursing that he doesn't articulate.]

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[beautifulspaceraptor]

[ Well. Always fun to see all of his bad hunches proving themselves right. Goddess, one biologically contaminated prison stationed and drugged up timelsip party was bad enough. ]

I did sneak some scans and samples of the food and drink while I was there. Should I submit them to the testing stations or somewhere more specific?

[lavelly]

[ffffuuuuucccckkkk]

If it's already left the body then what's the problem?

[Science.]

[redshitlord]

Wh... that's not. For everybody, is it?

I'm not even organic!

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[shiro2hero]

What symptoms, exactly?

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[mylawn]

You need it captured/contained?

[warandpeace]

[Parasite and Quarantine are words he does not like at all. Nope.]

I'll be at one as soon as I can.

[He thinks about telling them what might still be in his eyes- after all, even if they were cleared up, they're still the same eyes. But that might not make his life any easier.]

What does decontamination entail?

[otiosity]

Hmm.

I don't know, I think I would remember eating a massive blob of squishy flesh and then vomiting it up everywhere. It's a bit extraordinary. And disgusting.

[frankensteinian]

[Uh huh.]

So one ...creature [for lack of a better word] goes somewhere and gets infected with something, and no one notices, and everyone who went anywhere within the last two hundred days has to get tested?

[el_paso]

Some of us just got here. Are you telling me we have to go through... [ he makes a face ] ..."decontamination" as well?

[ Because sure, he'll just submit himself and his kid voluntarily to a lab- ahaha no, he won't. ]

[prorenataa]

[ Well, wasn't that delightful news to wake up too.

After scrubbing his hand over his face a few times, Adrien opened up a channel to T.O.D. ]

This is Dr. Adrien Arbuckal reporting in. [ Yes, when in situations like these he defaults to military speak. ]

I have not been off planet, as it happens, but I have some questions about bio-hazard protocols, the inter-universal quarantine procedures and the decontamination processes.

[ He'd run through a checklist of questions, covering standard bio-hazard practices and what could be expected of the decontamination process; just in case he got any questions.

He would have specific questions about the inter-universal quarantine procedure. [ooc: As I am not a doctor, can we squint our eyes and pretend Adrien asked all sorts of painfully detailed medical type questions that basically ended up sounding like he was speaking another language? ]

Finally, at the end of all that jargon, he paused and then inquired. ]

Were any notes, regarding this situation, recovered?

[coercive]

What is decontamination?

[She wants to know what exactly it involves so she can determine just how apprehensive of all this she should be.]

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[worn_wings]

Seems like folks goin' to that one place are the problem.

[ two hundred days, are you kidding. Space whales are not worth this kind of suffering. ]

[yablueit]

Wait, any travel? I thought just that asteroid was messed up! Why does everybody need decontaminating?